Kaseki looked at the Waterwheel Chen Yu had made and finally gave up.
He had wanted to name it the Super Huge Whirly-Whirly Cotton Candy Machine, but now it really was a Waterwheel.
Everyone watched Senku circling around beside Chen Yu, unsure what to say.
He might gripe, but whenever something useful appeared, Senku would flock to it regardless of anything else.
(I never imagined Senku would actually be able to modify the parts I casually added in the last chapter!)
In the end, Senku called everyone over to modify Chen Yu's Waterwheel and fit it with gears. To everyone's surprise, Chen Yu had made all kinds of gears, too.
If a gear wore out, no problem-there were spares. Couldn't find the spares? No problem-there were spares for the spares.
In short, he had a lot. Even Chrome and Kaseki, who had come to haul the gears, stared speechlessly at Chen Yu's enormous warehouse.
Only Senku knew why. He knew Chen Yu's bad habit: he always felt he wouldn't have enough, so he stockpiled enormous quantities of resources. Once, Chen Yu had introduced him to video games, and he had played for a few days.
When they finally played together, he looked at his own empty inventory, then at Chen Yu's inventory packed with items of every color. When he asked about it, Chen Yu said, "More is always better. Better safe than sorry."
Then, during one game, Senku died right at the start because he hadn't played enough. He watched Chen Yu keep flanking, feinting, resupplying, flanking, feinting, charging, flanking, resupplying, charging, resupplying...
After who knew how many rounds of that, Chen Yu finally left the battlefield. Senku checked the earnings and did the math: a net profit of tens of millions in game currency.
After that, he understood: